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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Happy 4th Birthday Paint Party Friday Selfie

Thank you Kristen and Eva for your beautiful devotion to this wonderful site!

I have been avoiding my selfie at all costs to the point of sabotaging any attempt to create one. I have been doing anything and everything but the dreaded selfie. I am not much of a selfie girl these days!!

Digital me!

I do my hair and makeup when I leave the house! Don't want my nude mutt and squirrely hair to be blamed for someones car crash or heart attack!

I know, I know. you doubt I have squirrely hair... trust me... I am a scary artist some days! Bra-less when I am home alone!! They are my built in security system!! Wards off strangers that would attempt to bother a women in the creative half of her life!

Of course I'm going to put my best face forward for this party!! Please excuse my wonky eyes though, just consider it my party face! After all don't we all have a wonky eye after a few drinks!

In Honour of Paint Party Fridays Fourth Birthday after a failed attempt at a very strange looking acrylic that looks NOTHING like me I created this digital piece, and the ones above. Not that the green haired me, or the Happy Birthday me do either! But I needed to participate!

I used to be a homemade apple pie in a purple kitchen!

I have passed the torch to my to Cupcake!

Now I'm a cane wielding mess in

long black paint splattered shirt dresses to my knees.

Also known as sleep shirts...shhhhh don't tell.

Surrounded by paint splashed towels, journals, books, art supplies

that often become as hilly as my breasts, begging to be straightened.

On occasion, and I say that lightly, as it only happens when guilt

actually takes out it's boot and kicks my butt.

Pretty much after the rest of the house has been cleaned and

I am still buried in a mess of art supplies I feel forced

to straighten my pile in a polite attempt to

be a considerate partner of my house mates!

Thank you all for visiting and contributing such thoughtful kind comments!

look at me actually posting comments two weeks running... see anything is possible lol... and I love the selfies you have posted... digital you is especially awesome... you kind of look like a kick arse character from a graphic novel... one who takes no prisoners while smiling if you know what i mean... love it...xx

It must be my narsisistic tendencies because I love drawing Selfies. Some of mine make me look older than Mathusiala , which for me is a good thing as no one ever believes me when I tell them my age. It's just good laughing at myself fun. If we don't laugh we cry and enough of that already, right?! Yours are all terrific, especially the one that looks the most real! Me thinks you don't give yourself half the credit you deserve! HPPF! This is one fun ride! And yes, I have drawn Tommy Kane multiple times!

I Love your selfie, and it is so good to see you! I seem to have birds nest hair atm which would go well with your squirrely look :) Self portraits are tough. I really understand the arty materials mound around you as that is how I have been living for the past weeks. I am so glad you can travel the world through blogging and share so much.

I love digital you - you have a real sparkle in your eye! I forgot about the selfie challenge for this week's PPF but also I don't really do human portraits (after my one poor attempt for the portrait competition a few years ago!) so I figured I'd just stick with what I know! Good on you for participating!x

You are beautiful inside and out, and your vibrant art always makes me happy. FAB self portraits!! I chickened out and just altered a photo a bit-not ready to draw one yet:). So thankful to have met up with you through the amazing PPF group!

Beautiful!! You are a gorgeous woman in photo and in paint! I know what you mean about being very relaxed when you are home painting. I do that as well and always have to get myself "together" before I leave the house... I missed the whole selfie challenge and posted a cow painting. That makes me laugh! :) xoxo Silke

You always make me smile - love those adorable selfies - creating an image of myself is the hardest thing to do. Either I come out way too young (I have a young soul!) or very strange looking. I am the cheapest model I know though! LOL. Have a great week

Love your delightful post, Sherrie. You said: "I do my hair and makeup when I leave the house! Don't want my nude mutt and squirrely hair to be blamed for someones car crash or heart attack!" I laughed out loud because unconsciously I think that's why I do a little makeup myself. I like all the self portraits.

Ok, according to the digitals, which I believe shows the real you (for you are a very real person of ever there was one) there is no squirrely hair or possibility of car crashes or heart attacks here. Gorgeous just like Cupcake! I don't find that painting self-portraits have the same therapeutic value other subjects have... and that 's the reaon I paint: therapy. I have ended up tense and irritable after each attempt... so I decided I reaaaaally don't have to do it ever again! Therefore I posted one I was "forced" to paint in a class a few years ago.

Your selfies are great and the variety is fab ;) I find it difficult with the selfies but my try went better than I thought - thanks a lot for your encouragng comment. Wsh you a beautiful weekend...Ariane

Great art again. My attempt at a selfie could be used as a Halloween portrait so I just don't do them any more. I guess I should get over that really learn how to do portraits but I haven't mastered that skill yet.

Even though you don't like it you did a great job on those selfies! I don't like making selfies either, and lucky me: this week I had no time to participate in PPF so I escaped the selfie-making-thing ;-)

oh my friend, you are SO beautiful. Love the selfies (paintings AND photos). You have such a lovely face. And what a pleasant surprise to find you saying such nice things about me here... it's true that we carve such profound friendships here, isn't it? Like you, i've made some wonderful friends on-line. Thank you for your wisdom & beauty (inside & out). xx

ok, let's try this again... i just posted a comment but doesn't look like it worked. Just saying how BEAUTIFUL you are (the photo AND the art!) and thanking you for sharing your wisdom & beauty with the world. It was a pleasant surprise to see my name here. :) You are such a kind heart... i love how you are so generous with your time & always so thoughtful with your words. xx

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